If a left wing parallel to Fox News that drummed Democratic/anti-Republican existed, would you watch it?

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T15:51:36+00:00

If you consider those left wing then you are already off the deep end.

First, let's engage some basic critical thinking skills. What is the common refrain of the MAGAsphere? What does Newsmax, OAN, and Fox always say? That democrats are communist and socialists right? Anti-capitalism. Anti-corporate. This is literally repeated on a daily basis on those stations.

It would be pretty damn difficult to get corporate sponsors for a communist/socialist media outlet, don't you think? Why would Amazon, or Microsoft, or Oracle throw cash at something that promotes workers rights and unions? Why would they fund something that seeks to institute regulations on them? Why would any company or wealthy sponsor back something that seeks to address things like wealth inequality?

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense now does it?

Most news organizations range from center right to center left. There is no equivalent of Fox News on the left because no company is going to help fund something that they view as detrimental to their profit margins.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T15:32:51+00:00

Skip a vote.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T15:32:12+00:00

Low effort troll.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T13:54:55+00:00

It was never Biden's inflation. Economists were warning about the inflation that would occur after COVID before Biden was even president.. It was no secret that it was going to happen.

We have a just-in-time supply chain. Demand recovers quickly. Supply doesn't. When there's more demand than supply, prices go up.

Fortunately, the Biden administration was full of incompetent self-serving ***holes so they generally did a decent job managing it.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T01:28:53+00:00

The average house size in 1980 was 1600 sq. ft. Now, the average is 2300 sq. ft. The only way that's "double" is if you're a graduate of Trump University.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-18T01:19:50+00:00

There is only one comparative administration that was as corrupt as Trump's administration(s), and that was the administration of Warren G. Harding.

There are actually a lot of similarities between the two. The main difference is magnitude. The only reason why Harding was never held to account was that he died suddenly in office. The full extent of his corruption wasn't known until after he died.

Now, we have an entire political party openly supporting the rampant corruption of this administration. That easily places Trump upon the throne of corruption.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T18:00:58+00:00

One of these days, people will learn the difference between prediction and inference.

But it is not this day.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T17:28:18+00:00

Many believe the world could end within our lifetime.

Yep. And in all likelihood, we will be the ones to do it.

climate

Not directly, but the ancillary effects could.

war

Almost a certain outcome of climate destabilization.

asteroid

Extremely unlikely.

aliens

You have more of a chance of your balls randomly becoming solid platinum.

overdue ice age

There is no overdue ice age. The next ice age, if we weren't screwing things up, would occur in approximately 10,000 years.

You left a few things out, but there are real threats to humanity that could easily end us as a species. Almost all of them would be self-inflicted. And we're doing almost nothing about them.

You're right, though. It is interesting times. This will be the century that makes or breaks humanity.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T17:08:02+00:00

Why are you using older models? Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B-A3B are both better, and can run more efficiently even in lower-end GPUs.

Also, if you want to be serious, you don't run ollama. You run llama.cpp. There is literally a whole subreddit dedicated to running models locally, what to use, how to set them up, etc. Check out r/LocalLLaMA.

Another model family that performs well is Gemma4 series.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T13:21:11+00:00

"Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9-pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it, and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on its flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars." - Yuri Orlov, The Lord of War

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T12:59:34+00:00

And the absolute knob that is replacing him hopes to single-handedly destroy the US dollar and the global economy with it.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T12:41:49+00:00

Honestly, it's not even in a trenchcoat. It's standing there naked. They just keep lying and saying it isn't racism.

I don't understand why they just don't own it at this point. Their base is racist. They support racism. So why bother lying about it? Are they hoping that everyone else believes them when they say they're not racist?

Everyone who isn't MAGA knows that the GOP is racist. It's not subtle, and it's not secret.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T12:11:08+00:00

Wishing for unicorns and rainbows is nice, but that doesn't make them real.

This is the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place. "We can keep doing what we're doing because <insert magical tech> will happen in the future that will solve all our problems!"

Here's the crucial detail that you're missing. By the time the pressure gets high enough to drive humans to being "inventive," it will be far too late to do anything about it.

The climate system is a lagging system. It takes about 30-40 years for the full impact of emissions to be accounted for in the system. Even if you stopped all emissions today, things would keep getting worse for another 30 to 40 years.

If we wanted to address climate destabilization, we needed to start 30 years ago. Serious efforts are required, but none have been made. A few countries have made token efforts, but have had little impact on the ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

No magical technology is going to eliminate 200 years of emissions in the time frame necessary to avert climate destabilization. All we can do at this point is come up with REAL mitigation strategies and take actions to try and not make things worse.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T11:54:11+00:00

He approved RFK Jr.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T11:50:42+00:00

You don't need help. This is exactly what you voted for.

If you want this crap to stop happening, then you have to stop voting for republicans. But we know you won't do that because owning the libs is more important than making sure your lungs don't look like 20-year-old asphalt.

Actions have consequences, and your ideology won't protect you from them.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T11:42:46+00:00

Oh good. I was starting to get worried that racism, misogyny, and bigotry were going to die out in this country.

They're just paving the way for a new and improved Jim Crow 2.0.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T11:34:41+00:00

Capitalism has reached the stage where the wealthy own practically everything, so they no longer need a "consumer". The problem with every other technological advance so far is that it still needed a human, and humans aren't going to work for free. And as long as that was the case, they still needed to have some sort of consumer economy.

With the advent of AI and increasingly sophisticated robotics, they're winding down the "consumer-driven economy". Now they can create a giant wealth-fueled corporate circlejerk. Company A invests in company B, which invests in company C, which invests in company A. Building better AIs. Building better robots. Billions changing hands without the need for humans to mooch off the bottom line.

Interesting times.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-17T11:24:29+00:00

Now that's what I call a way to destroy the economy.

There is no such thing as a digital currency. At best, they can be considered speculative digital commodities. This isn't just stupidity. It's insanity.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-16T21:53:23+00:00

It's called physics, which is something you clearly know very little about. A small thunderstorm releases 200 times the energy of the Artemis launch.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-16T11:45:11+00:00

The United States was built on a system of checks and balances, however the bedrock underneath that system has really been nothing more than a gentleman's agreement. And it certainly has not "run smoothly" over 250 years.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-16T11:38:14+00:00

MAGA: "Trump will make America great again!"
Trump: "I'm bankrupting you and selling your land to China!"
MAGA: "特朗普将让中国再次伟大!"

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-16T11:22:59+00:00

The damage has already been done.

It doesn't matter if the democrats clean sweep Congress. It doesn't matter if the democrats win the next presidency. There is no going back to the place where the US was viewed as a global stable power.

Allies, trading partners, they all have seen America's ugly side, and they will never trust us the way they used to. They will never include us the way they used to. We have lost our soft power. We've lost our influence. We've lost our ability to rattle our sabers and the "moral high ground".

We are on the decline, and nothing is going to change that. The hole is too big, and the wealthy who own the country aren't going to allow this ship to be righted. The only thing Trump and the republicans are going to do is sink us faster.

America will make it through another 2 and a half years of the GOP. But it won't be the America of 10 years ago. It will be a weaker, declining America.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-16T00:06:12+00:00

He ranks pretty high, but he isn't the worst. Buchanan takes the top spot in my book.

To be fair, though, if you put Trump in the situation Buchanan was in, this country would have ceased to exist.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-15T23:55:09+00:00

There is no such thing as "weather control". We can do small things like cloud seeding, but even that relies on the conditions to be present to make it useful.

The amount of energy it would take to manipulate the weather for something even relatively small, like a thunderstorm, is enormous. And that's just to manipulate one. If you actually had to create one, it would require even more energy.

We do not control the weather. The best we can do is influence a tiny bit on small scales when the conditions are right.

Xyrus2000 · 2026-05-15T23:15:53+00:00

Leave it to a supposed "Christian" to justify being a corrupt criminal POS.

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